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by polote 6y ago
Doesn't seem true https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-09/tesla-s-b...
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by polote 6y ago
It is the same thing as any other companies in the reviews business. The same can be said of Glassdoor or Yelp for example. As long as a review as an impact on the finance of a company. You can be sure the reviews provider will give ways to
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by polote 6y ago
This article is a joke written by the co-founder of Coin Metrics, a blockchain analytics startup. How he is not biased? Explaining that we are lucky to have bitcoin because China is wasting unused electricity...
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by polote 6y ago
Few things I dont get: - Who is your customer type ? Individual developers ? IT of companies ? - What do you bring in addition to Google G Suite ? - Why is that important to have beautiful UI ? - Why would I use your service to power auth o
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by polote 6y ago
If you really care about doing things. Stop attending to meetings. Delegates, empower people to decide by themselves. If you need to be in so many meetings, it means a lot of people think you need be consulted for a decision. It shows a bad
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by polote 6y ago
No you didn't. You first created your comment on this thread, then deleted it, to copy it in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26059517 then deleted it, to copy it again in the current thread. If you did
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by polote 6y ago
The answer is in the question: - If you are offering a free trial, you want all your users to be customers - If you are offering a free tier you bet your free users will either: become customers at some point or create some free marketing f
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by polote 6y ago
Are you going to continue deleting and recreating this comment until it is upvoted ? It is the 3 times I see you creating and deleting this comment, in either this thread or in the other one on the front page on the pricing strategy. You we
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by polote 6y ago
Hum, Google is a bad example, Google doesn't have a free plan. They monetize their users. It is a complete different topic
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by polote 6y ago
You can't just tell, I've used the product for free and I've recommended the product to paying customers so that it's worth it. How much do you cost the company by using the software for free? How much cost the thousands
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by polote 6y ago
That's a very naive article, pricing strategy is almost never the reason a company succeed. Some companies offers a free plan some don't. In both of those case some companies are successful. If you are wondering what pricing strat
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by polote 6y ago
yes
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by polote 6y ago
Well if true that would be a good news. Can't wait that more R&D is pushed into VR so that it becomes more than a toy. And especially Apple who knows how to release hardware that works
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by polote 6y ago
One role of the PM is to close gaps between departments and make people work together toward the same goal. It is very hard for a manager to do the same thing. For a PM it is easier because he is not the boss of anyone and don't try to
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by polote 6y ago
> It is way better to empower the tech and UX people And who empowers them if not the PM ? I mean in theory you could say that to get a product, you only need a designer and a developer. But you know the reality is different. This is not
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by polote 6y ago
The issue is most of the time the decision maker has no clue about that. In B2B enterprise the product is not a big part of the decision to buy or not.
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by polote 6y ago
In my experience 100% of salespeople will try to influence the product roadmap if it means they can sign a new deal
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by polote 6y ago
Don't want to be mean but this is honestly a very simple article. This can be easily summarized as : - A product manager's job is to decide how to build the product - a PMM is to market it - a PO is just a role inside a scrum team
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by polote 6y ago
> the key thing a product manager has to do is get out of the building. Well, no, that's the sales job. First being a product manager is different in every company. And second there is a lot of differences depending of the type of b
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by polote 6y ago
Youtube is almost unusable without uBlock Origin or you have to call it Adstube.
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by polote 6y ago
But what HN predicted was wrong https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632346 "My bet is that this incident is caused by a big release after a post-holiday "code freeze". "
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by polote 6y ago
> Lockdowns work. End of story This is not true. Hard lockdown that people follow seems to work. But lowdown only doesn't work. 1. Not all lockdown are equal, look at Germany how long they have a been in a soft lockdown so that deat
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by polote 6y ago
"How to make a webpage fast and performant", - Starts to explain how to use the most obscure javascript functions - Explains how to show a real time , websocket animated globe of users of github Lol
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by polote 6y ago
One rule to know about pricing which is counter intuitive. (And that has been repeated countless times on HN) Your pricing is never high enough If you want your prospects/customers to take you seriously they have to find you expensiv
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by polote 6y ago
I don't remember where I've read that but I remember seeing that creativity starts to decrease when you are getting paid for it. And it decreases even more if you are getting paid less. While when you are doing it for free creativ
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by polote 6y ago
I bet this guy started his career in a small companies and is now working with big companies. Why it is important? 1. The bigger the company, means also the older the company means also a lot of design and tech debt and results in bad UX 2.
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by polote 6y ago
If you had read the article, you would have seen that it's exactly what they say : “A strong economic base may benefit those interested in setting up a start-up, providing an economic safety net in the event of failure,”
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by polote 6y ago
People should be reminded that PG is a VC investor and so he wants the most people as possible to create companies
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by polote 6y ago
> Reddit traders that are making a killing right now How can you know that ? Some of them are making a killing, but how can you be sure it is the majority of them ? It is easy to say that some hedge founds made bad bet, but I strongly th
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Product Management in SaaS B2B Enterprise Is Easy(blog.luap.info)
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